Broadband News
Fri, 01st Jul 2011
Vodafone adds 775 mobile network sites, upgrades 810
Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) is ahead of schedule with its $1.1 billion network upgrade with 775 new network sites added and another 810 upgraded.
Source: ARN
AAPT meets NBN with expanded network
AAPT chief David Yuile has revealed plans to extend the telco's fibre network in a bid to reach all 121 points of interconnect under the National Broadband Network.
Source: iTnews Australia
AAPT becomes official NBN aggregator
Aapt is now a certified National Broadband Network (NBN) service aggregator.
Source: ARN
ACCC rethinks Telstra exchange regulation
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has had second thoughts about Telstra exchanges that it had previously exempted from regulation, saying that some may not be living up to its expectations.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN to launch rural broadband service
Rural and remote Australians will soon have access to broadband services similar to their city cousins with the launch of the National Broadband Network's (NBN) Interim Satellite Service.
Source: Computerworld
Test finds national wireless network would harm GPS
New tests for a propossed US-wide wireless broadband network have cast doubt over the Opposiiton's call for the wiidespread use of wireless as an alternative to Labor's National Broadband Network (NBN).
Source: ARN
Thu, 30th Jun 2011
Tasmanian NBN cabling stays overhead
The mayor of one of two towns to receive second-stage NBN fibre in Tasmania has flagged the potential for overhead cabling to play a big part at the site.
Source: iTnews Australia
TransACT named as latest RSP choice for the NBN
Regional telco TransACT has been named as the latest retail service provider (RSP) to work on the National Broadband Network (NBN).
Source: Computerworld
Global sites still slow, says NBN early adopter
Menon's point is a good one -- Australia's international internet links still aren't the greatest, and much will depend on the quality of your ISP's links, as well as the general load of internet traffic on the day to particular sites, their database configuration, how many network hops there are between your PC and their server, and so on.
Source: iTWire
NBN second stage under construction in Tas
Construction on the second phase of the National Broadband Network (NBN) has begun in Tasmania.
Source: Computerworld
TransACT seeks Conroy's exemption in Canberra expansion
TransACT has appealed to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy for an exemption to recently passed NBN legislation that had stalled a greenfields network build outside Canberra.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra 'got best deal possible'
Retiring Telstra chief financial officer John Stanhope is convinced the company got the best deal possible from the NBN talks.
Source: Australian IT
Net a daily habit for most of us
Australia is embracing the digital age, with 70% of households connecting to the internet, and more than half of them online daily.
Source: Australian IT
Wed, 29th Jun 2011
Telco cloud risk shifts to NBN: Alcatel
Telstra is better off selling cloud services on the National Broadband Network (NBN) than through its existing copper network, as much of the risk will shift to NBN Co, according to Alcatel-Lucent.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Gillard repeats: Abbott would 'rip the NBN fibre up'
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has repeated her claim that a Coalition Government would physically remove the National Broadband Networks' fibre cables out of the ground if it were to take office.
Source: iTWire
NBN to bring higher costs, state warns
The $36 billion NBN could saddle consumers with unnecessarily high internet costs and hold back competition, the Victorian government warns.
Source: Australian IT
AARNet aims for 100Gbps network within 12 months
Australia's Academic and Research Network (AARNET) will convert its network to 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) within 12 months following a successful 40Gbps trial on its East Coast optical network.
Source: Computerworld
Fibre network refresh at NBN-ready councils
Local councils have begun planning their move onto the National Broadband Network under the expectation it could save them thousands of dollars a month connecting facilities.
Source: iTnews Australia
Alcatel-Lucent unveils 400G network chip
Alcatel-lucent overnight unveiled a network chip that gives the company a leg up on its networking technologies. The company announced its FP3 processor, which supports 400 gigabits per second (Gbps) transmission speeds.
Source: ZDNet Australia
TransACT joins NBN mainland trials
Transact has become the newest ISP to join the National Broadband Network (NBN) mainland trials.
Source: ARN
Tue, 28th Jun 2011
AARNet trials 40Gbps for CSIRO
Australia's Academic Research Network (AARNet) has successfully linked up three CSIRO astronomy sites in New South Wales at speeds of 40 gigabits per second (Gbps) over 1300km as part of a trial.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Ericsson achieves almost 1Gbps in first LTE Advanced demo
Ericsson has staged what it says is the first demonstration of LTE Advanced over the air in a mobile environment, achieving download speeds of 900Mbps.
Source: iTWire
Internode comes out on top in customer satisfaction survey
Australians have weighed in on ISPs' customer service, with Internode coming out on top.
Source: Computerworld
Vodafone closing free BitTorrent loophole
Vodafone has moved to shut down a strange glitch in its system that allowed customers to use BitTorrent, make Voice over IP (VoIP) calls, check email and do online banking, all without being charged for data usage.
Source: ZDNet Australia
AFP readies list for ISPs to censor web
The Australian Federal Police has started preparing its first ISP censorship notices under a voluntary internet filtering scheme targeting online child abuse material.
Source: Australian IT
VHA has a long way to go before the NBN
Despite making much of their network improvements and claiming to have slowed down customer churn rates, Vodafone Hutchison Australia still has the least satisfied customers, according to a Roy Morgan survey.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Mobile Broadband Group Test
It's been 12 months since our last mobile broadband test and - thanks to personal Wi-Fi hotspots and tablet PCs - it's a very different environment. Alex Kidman investigates the brave new world of Aussie mobile broadband.
Source: PC Authority
Telstra gain from phone links post-NBN
Telstra stands to make more than twice its current revenue and cashflow under the new universal services obligation contract as part of the NBN.
Source: Australian IT
Mon, 27th Jun 2011
"It's not censorship": IIA defends Interpol blacklist
Australia's peak internet industry body today sought to distance its fledgling child pornography filtering scheme from the Federal Government's mandatory filtering policy, stating its own more limited approach was more akin to ISPs cooperating with law enforcement authorities and would not constitute a form of censorship.
Source: iTWire
NBN cash gives Telstra options: Thodey
Faced with the prospect of incoming cash from the $11 billion deal with the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) and the Federal Government, Telstra will be seeking to "re-orientate" itself with potential acquisitions and technology investments, according to CEO David Thodey.
Source: ZDNet Australia